Saul Elbein
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Keeping Time In Lockhart
Gene Galbraith is a professional horologist, an archaic word that essentially means “maker of clocks and watches.” Full Story
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The Seeds That Time Forgot
Once, amaranth was a staple of Mesoamerican civilization. Now a Oaxacan nonprofit is trying to bring it back. Full Story -
Iron Hands Behind the Pine Curtain
I watched him being loaded into the van. The pepper spray had not been washed off; his face was swollen and contorted, with long ropes of mucus hanging from his nostrils. Full Story -
Keeping Time In Lockhart
The story of how Galbraith ended up devoting his life to the care and restoration of antique clocks reads like a fairy tale. It dates back 30 years to a now-vanished neighborhood in Austin, to the day when a simple act of kindness changed Galbraith’s life forever. Full Story -
Fehrenbach’s Texas
When I met T.R. Fehrenbach, the fam-ous Texas historian, I found an old man given to gloomy pronouncements about mortality wearing a camel hair [...] Full Story -
Report on Latest Budget Cuts Says Schools Can’t Go on Like This Forever
Last year, as you may recall, the Legislature cut $5.4 billion from the state’s public education budget. By now the effects are starting to [...] Full Story
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Like A Bad Neighbor
This spring, Texas’ biggest insurance company took the unusual step of trying to hike homeowner’s insurance rates for the second time in eight months. [...] Full Story -
This State Runs on Clean Natural Gas
As the oil slick blooms across the Gulf, you are going to start hearing calls that we switch to a safer, cleaner form of [...] Full Story -
Film Festivals and the Myth of Marfa
Why Marfa? I don’t know. I wanted to put on a film festival, and here we are. -Robin Lambaria,MFF organizer To understand why [...] Full Story -
Conversion Story
Abby Johnson was the 29-year-old executive director of Planned Parenthood in Bryan when she resigned in October. A month later, she was on Mike [...] Full Story -
The Curious Faith of Don McLeroy
The man at the center of the fight over science education in Texas is a 63-year-old dentist from Bryan, an ardent religious conservative with [...] Full Story